Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites

A couple of security researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability that is capable of allowing hackers to break the SSL encryption mechanism used by millions of websites worldwide.

The attack, termed as BEAST, was developed by researchers Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong. They plan to demonstrate the attack at the Ekoparty security conference in Argentina.

"While other attacks focus on the authenticity property of SSL, BEAST attacks the confidentiality of the protocol. As far as we know, BEAST implements the first attack that actually decrypts HTTPS requests... [A]n attacker slips a bit of JavaScript into your browser, and the JavaScript collaborates with a network sniffer to undermine your HTTPS connection."

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